Park Lot 31

Margueretta Street to Lansdowne Avenue (north part)

May 7, 1830, William Burns of Philadelphia (Alexander’s heir) grants the property in trust to Alexander Wood, who sells it in May 1831 to Walter O’Hara.

Above: This detail of the patent plan of York Township shows the narrow 100-acre Park Lots stretching between today's Queen Street and Bloor Street. A patent plan was an important working document in the surveyor's office showing the land ownership. Perhaps as early as 1796, this plan certainly dates from prior to 1834 when the Town of York changed to the City of Toronto. (Patent Plans, “York Township”, [178?]-[ca. 1978], Archives of Ontario, RG 1-100)